Civil Rights

On July 16, 1790, the District of Columbia was established with George Washington’s signing of the Residence Act.

Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was born on June 27, 1872, in Dayton, Ohio.

The youngest man ever elected President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. 

Reverend Theodore Martin Hesburgh was born on May 25, 1917, in Syracuse, New York. 

President Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884.

On April 14, 1947, the court case of Mendez v. Westminster was decided in favor of Gonzalo Mendez, an early success in the fight against segregation. 

César Estrada Chávez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona.

On this day in 1914, International Women’s Day was first celebrated on March 8.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was born on March 7, 1850, in Hodonín, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic).